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Love is essentially an experience of self-discovery and exchange with another considered as an ideal. Love, to which psychoanalysts eagerly seek to understand the intimacy revealed through the choice of a partner. The experience of love illustrates the transition from normality to abnormality. It constructs a symptom through the medium of transference, subjecting the lover to the unexpected and sometimes to an unforeseen demand from the other, and at times, chronic suffering and a source of alienation. Love can be the blossoming of an escape from depression. This choice evolves with psychological maturity. The meaning of love can be illusory, identical, the savior, the healer; it can be a means towards the discovery of otherness. Love reflects the darker part of the psyche, which is the unconscious, not forgetting the psychopathological forms of love.

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When it comes to eating disorders, individuals often quickly feel stigmatized and hold themselves responsible for a dysfunction they believe they have caused. Being obese or anorexic becomes a label that is swiftly applied by those around, and one eventually identifies with this judgment. Beyond an insurmountable conflict, the person will suffer from the image they project. In therapy, the psychotherapist often witnesses an alternation between two manifestations: weight gain and weight loss. Indeed, this alternation is much more prevalent in the psychological experience than one might think, and this book is here to demonstrate that. Weight loss only makes sense in comparison to a previous state, that of weight gain, and vice versa. The book describes the complexity of the experiences of patients followed over the years. It explores how the desire to eat until engulfed or, conversely, the repulsion or disgust for food, obeys well-kept secrets. These secrets are so well guarded and, so to speak, internalized that they are often not accessible to the patient themselves.

In this work, three cases construct the thread of reflection and underlie a theory of clinical practice, revealing the importance of the relationship with the other, the one carried within oneself. The presence of the other is so strong and omnipresent here that it dictates whether to eat or to lose weight. "For whom do I eat?" questions the first patient. This dependence of patients is developed through the psychotherapy process and the transference to the psychotherapist. This reveals the interaction between being together and the confusion between the presence of the other and the other within oneself. From this relational peculiarity, the person is dedicated to living for the other, as if the act of eating or not eating were the main stake in maintaining the other's life and making them exist for oneself.

War, crime, state repression, sexual violence, insult, humiliation, and contempt dominate the headlines. Are these acts of violence more prevalent today than in the past? Probably not. Violence transcends time, cultures, social groups, and, consequently, the psychic life of each individual. Why is there this need to destroy, even to the point of barbarity, as highlighted by philosopher Simone Weil's observation of its permanent and universal nature? Philosophy, law, and sociology provide their answers, but none seek to understand this peculiar need without the Freudian interpretation of instinct.

How can we interpret the brutality of violence without considering the Freudian concepts of the unconscious, narcissism, pleasure, fantasies, and desire? This book, featuring contributions from various authors, explores the psychoanalytic perspective on violence, shedding light on the role of the unconscious, narcissism, pleasure, fantasies, and desire in understanding the phenomenon of violence.

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